Simple Dreams by Linda Ronstadt (Vinyl record album review)

Album name: Simple Dreams

Artist name: Linda Ronstadt

Year: 1977

Number of discs: one

Label: Asylum Records

Collection: Brenner / Gessner

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My review

Level of familiarity before listening

I listened to Different Drum by Linda Ronstadt last month and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. “Simple Dreams” was recorded a few years later, but maybe it will be similar?

What I expected

Country, rock, country-rock, folk-rock.

What it was actually like

“Simple Dreams” had a bunch of covers, and Buddy Holly’s It’s So Easy was by far its best song, and the only one that I really liked at all – I thought Linda Ronstadt did a great job with it. Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison) and Tumbling Dice (Rolling Stones) were both all right, but nothing special. The rest of the record was quite boring.